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When Our Teacher Was Seventeen: Diary of an Orthodox girl

When Our Teacher Was Seventeen: Diary of an Orthodox girl

From Afar, A. Friend
Gavrilov, Yuri
Grechin, Boris

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Religion General General Education

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ISBN13: 9798193045489
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

What is this novel, finally? It is a love story, but not a romance. It is a Bildungsroman, but the self being formed is a soul, not a personality. It is a work of theological fiction, but its theology is entirely dramatic, embodied in conversations and meals and quarrels, never abstracted into sermons. It is, perhaps most of all, a book about the possibility of spiritual education in a world that has forgotten what spiritual education is for - a world in which schools, even religious schools, have become machines for producing conformity, in which the Church too often offers not the living water of the Gospel but the grey asphalt of rules, in which the very idea of a teacher who takes an individual soul seriously enough to craft a curriculum just for her seems like a fairy tale. And yet here it is, in these pages: the fairy tale made real, the Prince and the Fox walking together through the forest, the music of Stravinsky cracking open the shell of a frightened girl's heart, the Desert Fathers standing alongside Plato and Kierkegaard and a Lebanese pop star, all of them witnesses to the one thing that matters.

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